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• New condos on former Mount Pleasant coffee shop site now up for sale

  21-02-2018 23:45 via vancouversun.com
  Condos that will soon sit on the Mount Pleasant lot where Bean Around The World used to be are now for sale – which you can afford if you give up about 200,000 lattes or have $800,000 kicking around.
  The development located at Main Street and Twentieth in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant – named Main & Twentieth – is currently being marketed to prospective buyers who pre-registered and a quick glance of the floor plans and their prices is enough to make most people do
  
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• Former North Vancouver councillor to be honoured as part of Black History Month - CBC.ca

  21-02-2018 23:08
  CBC.ca
  Former North Vancouver councillor to be honoured as part of Black History Month
  CBC.ca
  At the foot of Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver, just a short distance from Lonsdale Quay and the waterfront, sits the John Braithwaite Community Centre. It`s named after one of B.C.s first black politicians, a man whose decades of social work helped ...
  Black History Month Menu at NYU: Kool-Aid, Watermelon and ControversyNew York Times
  Statement by NYU President Andrew Hamilton on AramarkNYU Newsall
  
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• It's Heritage Week in the City Feb 19-25. The 2018 theme is: Heritage Stands the Test of Time. See proclamation:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-02-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  It's Heritage Week in the City Feb 19-25. The 2018 theme is: Heritage Stands the Test of Time. See proclamation:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with the province's plan to tackle rising daycare costs?

  21-02-2018 22:13 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial New Democrat government released its budget yesterday, which addressed the rising cost of daycare by offering relief mainly for low-income families. 
  Read Lori Culbert’s story on child care here.
  Rob Shaw’s overall budget story can be read here.
  While child-care advocates praised the move as a step in the right direction, others criticized the plan for not being universal, arguing middle-income families are also struggling with soaring daycare costs and
  
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• Vancouver teacher suspended after distributing class material with N-word

  21-02-2018 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  A teacher at an elementary school in Vancouver has been suspended while an investigation is underway into why the N-word was used in class material.
  The Vancouver School Board is not identifying the teacher pending the investigation results, but confirms a teacher at Trafalgar Elementary distributed worksheets to students with the derogatory term.
  “This situation at Trafalgar Elementary is under investigation. The teacher has been removed from service pending the investigation,” the
  
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• New driver ticketed for speeding, talking on phone in West Vancouver

  21-02-2018 21:27 via vancouversun.com
  When will they learn?
  A recent tweet by the West Vancouver police highlighted another new driver who was pulled over going well over the speed limit while talking on the phone earlier this week, prompting police to wonder whether the lesson is getting through.
  “If you’re travelling at excessive speeds, we really need you to give that a second thought and travel at a more safe speed,” said Const. Jeff Palmer with WVPD. “This isn’t just about piling up tickets or pili
  
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• Canada a nation of 'distrusters' but puts credence in journalists and runs trustworthy companies

  21-02-2018 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  Despite its global reputation as a well-mannered populace, Canada is a nation of “distrusters.”
  That’s according to the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer, which surveyed more than 33,000 people from 28 countries and found that Canada ranked ninth for average trust in institutions including government, business, media and non-governmental organizations. People in China, Indonesia and India were the top three distrusters. 
  According to the survey, which was conducted online last
  
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• Demonstration march may cause traffic delays - police announce bit.ly/2ojEclZ #NorthVancouver https://t.co/sqsHDsDOEs

  21-02-2018 21:10 via twitter.com
  
  Demonstration march may cause traffic delays - police announcebit.ly/2ojEclZ#NorthVancouver https://t.co/sqsHDsDOEs
  
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• Still time to register for #GofortheGold Street Hockey Tournament @ The Shipyards THIS weekend! Open to ages 8+, Xo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-02-2018 20:23 via twitter.com
  Still time to register for #GofortheGold Street Hockey Tournament @ The Shipyards THIS weekend! Open to ages 8+, Xo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We're recruiting for auxiliary Communication Operator 1s. Click here to apply. ow.ly/RSeD30ixo4U

  21-02-2018 20:17 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for auxiliary Communication Operator 1s.Click here to apply. ow.ly/RSeD30ixo4U
  
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• Judge orders mom whose baby was seized to get improved access

  21-02-2018 20:14 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has ordered that a Vancouver Island mother who was shocked when her baby girl was taken from her just three days after being born be given better access to the infant.
  In a ruling released Tuesday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray ordered that the mom, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, be given more time with the child to facilitate breastfeeding and bonding.
  And the judge also ordered that the provincial director of child, family and community services consid
  
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• Q&A: Superchunk's Mac McCaughan talks resisting the new normal

  21-02-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Superchunk
  When: Feb. 28. 8 p.m.
  Where: Rickshaw Theatre
  Tickets: $20, Red Cat Records and ticketfly.comSince 1989, Superchunk has been at the forefront of DIY indie-rock. Filling their albums with punchy, spiky guitar-heavy rockers, the North Carolina quartet has kept its edge, even through lengthy hiatuses and while raising families. Written in a three-month burst following the 2016 U.S. election and recorded in two sessions last year, the band’s latest record What a Time to Be Alive is
  
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• The #DNVsnow team reports snow is on the way. We have 11 trucks and staff standing by, and main and secondary roads… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-02-2018 19:49 via twitter.com
  The #DNVsnow team reports snow is on the way. We have 11 trucks and staff standing by, and main and secondary roads… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Hey Zone #5, we're coming to recycle your old garbage cans this weekend (Feb 24-25). Please leave them at the curb… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-02-2018 19:22 via twitter.com
  Hey Zone #5, we're coming to recycle your old garbage cans this weekend (Feb 24-25). Please leave them at the curb… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. Wine Institute to take court action against Alberta in pipeline trade dispute

  21-02-2018 19:03 via vancouversun.com
  The British Columbia Wine Institute is seeking a court injunction to stop Alberta from boycotting B.C. wine over the pipeline expansion dispute. 
  The institute says it has notified the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission that it will challenge the constitutionality of the ban, imposed Feb. 6.
  The ban is “severely harming BC wineries and grape growers many of which are small, family-owned operations,” the institute said in a statement Wednesday. 
  The institute’s presi
  
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• Vancouver teacher suspended over allegations of using derogatory language

  21-02-2018 19:02 via vancouversun.com
  A teacher at an elementary school in Vancouver has been suspended while an investigation is underway into why the N-word was used in class material.
  The Vancouver School Board is not identifying the teacher pending the investigation results, but confirms a teacher at Trafalgar Elementary distributed worksheets to students with the derogatory term.
  “This situation at Trafalgar Elementary is under investigation. The teacher has been removed from service pending the investigation,” the
  
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• Restaurant review: Di Beppe's chef serves up Italian comfort food

  21-02-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Di Beppe Caffe and Ristorante
  Where: 8 West Cordova
  Open: Ristorante, Wed-Sun. dinner; Caffe, daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. dibeppe.comLet’s talk names. Di Beppe pretty much means Joe’s — Beppe being shorthand for Guiseppe (Joseph) in Italian. Not long ago, Di Beppe Cafe and Ristorante in Gastown was called Joe Pizza, serving up Roman pizza, pre-made and reheated. The concept was wrong for the space and neighbourhood and so there has been a quick rebrand.
  Craig Stanghetta, the m
  
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• #NorthVan just one week left to get a discount on your Utility rates. Due Feb 28. cnv.org/UtilityRates… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-02-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  #NorthVan just one week left to get a discount on your Utility rates. Due Feb 28. cnv.org/UtilityRates… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with the province's plan to tackle rising day care costs?

  21-02-2018 16:21 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial New Democrat government released its budget yesterday, which addressed the rising cost of day care by offering relief mainly for low income families. 
  Read Rob Shaw’s story here.
  While child care advocates praised the move as a step in the right direction, others criticized the plan for not being universal, arguing middle income families are also struggling with soaring day care costs and affordable housing in Metro Vancouver.  There will also be a separate option
  
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• Richmond vegetarian food company fined for illegal dumping in Fraser River

  21-02-2018 15:46 via vancouversun.com
  A Richmond company has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars after vegetable oil leaked into the Fraser River.
  Garden Protein (or Gardein) International pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of unlawfully depositing a deleterious substance in an area where it may enter fish-bearing water, according to the federal  Environment and Climate Change Ministry.On Feb. 5, the federal agency launched an investigation after receiving a report that vegetable oil had been released into a ditch on
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Cold snap continues, with more snow Wednesday

  21-02-2018 15:30 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – The weather continues to be frosty over the next couple of days in Metro Vancouver, with up to four centimetres of snow expected today. The temperature early Wednesday was -4 C. The mercury is expected to climb but only slightly to a bone chilling -1 C, before plunging back down to -5 C overnight. The sunshine and above zero temperatures return Thursday, but it’s a brief respite, as more snow is expected on Thursday night and on Friday.
  Elsewhere in B.C., several co
  
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• This Just In: NARS Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation, Lipstick Queen The Whole Truth Lipstick and Paul & amp; Joe Beauté Hand Cream N

  21-02-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  NARS 
  Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation
  They say: The cosmetics company introduces its first 16-hour wear, fade-resistant foundation that features buildable coverage that keeps skin looking fresh and radiant. Available in 33 skin tone-matching shades. 
  We say: With this foundation, a little goes a long way. Our tester was impressed with how matte and smooth it made her skin look — without making it look like a flat mask. The product was easy to blend and required not touch ups
  
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• Dharm Makwana: 4 likes, dislikes about Sun Run training when it's cold

  21-02-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Here’s my take on training for the 34th Vancouver Sun Run in adverse conditions:
  1 ) Spoiler: Running in icy conditions is dangerous
  It was super cold Sunday! Super cold! It was so cold that the snowy stuff in my neighbourhood turned into stubborn ice that stuck to the sidewalks. Not every owner or landlord around my place was quick to get the shovels out either. So, a big chunk of my run was spent on making sure I was on solid footing.
  2 ) Thumbs up for thumb holes
  I’ve done some pr
  
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• Opinion: Quietly strengthening Vancouver families for 90 years

  21-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  In the past 12 months, the opioid crisis and rising housing costs have been hanging over the heads of Vancouverites. A decade ago, it was the effects of a different grey cloud — the global financial crash — that troubled B.C. families. Fifty years before that, it was the aftermath of the Second World War. We’ve all been impacted on some level by the socio-economic crises of our times.
  Regardless of the crisis of the day, there is one non-profit organization that’s witness
  
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• Environment minister blasted for dinner with anti-pipeline activists on day of trade war

  21-02-2018 03:48 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Liberals are questioning whether the province’s environment minister shared information about the NDP government’s opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion in a way that swung the stock market.
  The province announced on Jan. 30 that it would limit the amount of diluted bitumen that can be transported by pipeline or rail until it can do further research on spill cleanup. That same day, Environment Minister George Heyman ate dinner with a “Kinder Morgan St
  
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• B.C. Budget 2018: Massey Tunnel replacement omitted from transportation spending plans

  21-02-2018 03:48 via vancouversun.com
  Spending for major transit and infrastructure projects in Metro Vancouver was outlined in B.C.’s budget on Tuesday, but one of the biggest transportation bottlenecks — the George Massey Tunnel — was conspicuously absent.
  The previous B.C. Liberal government had intended to replace the 59-year-old tunnel with a $3.5-billion, 10-lane bridge, but that idea has been put on hold by the NDP. In September the government decided to hire a consultant to explore whether it’s a bett
  
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• Comox's Cassie Sharpe follows footsteps, and aerials, of late pioneering legend Sarah Burke

  21-02-2018 03:44 via vancouversun.com
  Her old freestyle coach could tell by the look on Cassie Sharpe’s face after she’d won the Olympic gold medal in halfpipe just what it meant to her.
  “The pride for me isn’t in the medal, it’s in that she did all she could do on that day,” said Stuart Robinson, who coached Sharpe at Mount Washington on Vancouver Island from 2009 to 2014. “And for Cassie, that meant making history.”
  Sharpe dedicated her sensational gold-medal performance on Monday to
  
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• B.C. Budget 2018: Big spending on child care, housing; foreign buyer tax expanded

  21-02-2018 03:23 via vancouversun.com
  THE 2018/19 B.C. BUDGET AT A GLANCE:
  • A new child care program that makes care effectively free for some low-income families, and offers modest subsidies for others based on income. There’s no mention of when, or even if, government will meet its $10-a-day child care election promise.
  • An immediate increase to the foreign buyer tax from 15 per cent to 20 per cent, and an expansion to Kamloops, Kelowna, Greater Victoria and the Fraser Valley.
  • The elimination of Medical Se
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Hike in taxes, spending part of B.C. budgetary 'sweet talk'

  21-02-2018 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — For the first budget of a new era, Finance Minister Carole James announced several billion dollars worth of tax increases Tuesday, offset by an almost equivalent number of billions in unallocated spending.
  The combination created some fiscal manoeuvring room for the John Horgan NDP government, a welcome development for a premier who made as many promises as he did.
  The new tax increases are expected to raise an additional $4.4 billion over the next three years, even after t
  
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• Things to do in the Lower Mainland this week: Toronto Dance Theatre, The Past, BadAss Film Festival and more

  21-02-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Toronto Dance Theatre: House Mix
  When: Feb. 23-24, 8 p.m.
  Where: Vancouver Playhouse
  Tickets and info: from $35, dancehouse.ca
  The company celebrates 50 years with a selection of some of its, and artistic director and choreographer Christopher House’s, greatest hits. These range from the elegiac 1991 piece Early Departures, to the thrilling, fast-moving audience fave Vena Cava, to a recent work, Thirteen. A DanceHouse presentation.
  Actor Tristan Risk.
  BadAss Film Festival
  When: Feb. 23-25
  
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• B.C. Budget 2018: B.C. NDP increases and extends housing taxes in effort to rein in speculation

  21-02-2018 02:53 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan’s NDP government has taken steps to tamp down speculation in B.C. real estate by imposing a new speculation tax and increasing the foreign buyers tax to 20 per cent.
  Both measures, aimed at slowing the flow of global capital that critics say is driving up B.C. home prices, will extend beyond Metro Vancouver to other urban centres of B.C.
  The new 20 per cent level for the foreign buyer tax takes effect immediately, on Wednesday.
  NDP Finance Minister Carole James acknowle
  
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• Recent filming at the cemetery just wrapped. (can't mention production as spoiler would ensue). Check out the spook… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-02-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Recent filming at the cemetery just wrapped. (can't mention production as spoiler would ensue). Check out the spook… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. Budget 2018: Families earning less than $45,000 a year will pay 'little or nothing' for licensed daycare

  21-02-2018 00:44 via vancouversun.com
  The NDP’s first budget pledges $1 billion over the next three years to create an affordable child care system in B.C., although one without its major campaign promise of a $10-a-day rate.
  Instead, it has promised a combination of two measures that will drastically reduce child care costs for families with kids in licensed facilities, and which will together help low-income earners the most. “Approximately 27,000 families with annual incomes under $45,000 will pay little or nothing fo
  
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• B.C. Budget 2018: Big spending on child care and housing; foreign buyer tax expanded

  21-02-2018 00:42 via vancouversun.com
  THE 2018/19 B.C. BUDGET AT A GLANCE:
  • A new child care program that makes care effectively free for some low-income families, and offers modest subsidies for others based on income. There’s no mention of when, or even if, government will meet its $10-a-day child care election promise.
  • An immediate increase to the foreign buyer tax from 15 per cent to 20 per cent, and an expansion to Kamloops, Kelowna, Greater Victoria and the Fraser Valley.
  • The elimination of Medical Se
  
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• B.C. Budget 2018: New payroll tax offsets loss from cancelling medical premiums

  21-02-2018 00:39 via vancouversun.com
  Employers who thought they were off the hook for Medical Services Plan premiums as employee benefits when the NDP government announced the elimination of premiums last year got a surprise on Tuesday. The NDP government’s budget unveiled a new payroll tax in 2019 to offset the loss in revenue from the premiums.
  The payroll tax will be a new expense for many companies that have payrolls over $500,000; those with payrolls under $500,000 will be exempt from the tax.
  Finance Minister Carole Jam
  
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• B.C. Budget 2018: Take our poll – are you happy with the B.C. Budget?

  21-02-2018 00:37 via vancouversun.com
  On Tuesday, the B.C. government announced its budget, the first since Premier John Horgan and the B.C. NDP took over from the Liberals.
  What do you think of the B.C. budget?Take Our Poll
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  B.C. budget spends big on child care and housing, expands foreign buyer taxB.C. Budget 2018: How the B.C. budget will affect youB.C. Budget 2018: Families earning less than $45,000 a year will pay 'little or nothing' for licensed daycareB.C. Budget 2018: $1.6 billion allocated for housing but no rebate f
  
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• B.C. Budget 2018: $1.6 billion allocated for housing but no rebate for renters

  21-02-2018 00:33 via vancouversun.com
  A major bump in funding for affordable housing in B.C. and a vow to improve protections for tenants were included in the NDP government’s 2018 budget, unveiled Tuesday, but its promised $400 rebate for renters was nowhere to be found.
  The $1.6 billion in new spending on homes came alongside a raft of measures to stabilize the real estate market, crack down on fraud and close loopholes, and was part of a broader 10-year, 30-point plan that called for 114,000 affordable homes over the next d
  
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• B.C. Budget 2018: How the budget will affect you

  21-02-2018 00:26 via vancouversun.com
  The 2018 B.C. budget included announcements that will affect everyone from parents of small children to luxury car owners and smokers. Here’s a summary of how the NDP’s first full budget will impact British Columbians.
  CHILD CARE
  A new child care program will make care effectively free for some low-income families, and offers modest subsidies for others based on income.
  Families making up to $111,000 are eligible, but it will help low-earners the most: those making less than $45,000
  
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• Coquitlam piano teacher charged with sex assaults against students

  21-02-2018 00:12 via vancouversun.com
  A 67-year-old Coquitlam piano teacher has been charged with sexual assault against three former students.
  Coquitlam RCMP say the allegations involved three different students and occurred between 1998 and 2015.
  The victim’s ages were not released but RCMP Const. Michael McLaughlin says the students were teens and pre-teens.
  Dmytro Kubyshkin, also known as Dmitri Kubyshkin, was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with three counts of sexual assault. He remains in custody pending
  
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• Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre: B.C.’s 2018 budget fails to deal with competitiveness

  21-02-2018 00:07 via vancouversun.com
  Unfortunately, one of the most important takeaways of the new B.C. government’s first full budget will likely go unnoticed—it includes major tax increases to finance major spending increases.
  Many economic commentators will likely instead focus on the government’s aim to balance the operating budget every year. While a fiscal framework that avoids the deficit-financed spending that plagued the NDP in the 1990s is a good thing, in reality, the $5.4 billion in new spending over t
  
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